from ancestry.com membership required..nelda The Biographical Encyclopaedia of Ohio of the Nineteenth Century Name: Hon. John Beatty son of James and Elizabeth (Williams) Beatty, was born near Sandusky, Ohio, December 16th, 1828. He received a good common school education, and located in business at Cardington, Ohio, where he engaged in banking. He was an active supporter of John P. Hale for the Presidency in 1852, and of John C. Fremont in 1856, and was a Presidential elector on the Republican ticket in 1860. At the outbreak of the rebellion he raised a company for the Union army, was unanimously chosen Captain, and reported with his men to the Adjutant-General on the 19th of April, 1861. He was elected Lieutenant-Colonel of the 3d Ohio Infantry, and re-elected to that position when the regiment, at the expiration of its three months' enlistment, reorganized for the three years' service. Colonel Beatty was with Generals McClellan and Rosecrans in their campaign in western Virginia, and in the winter of 1861-62 was transferred to Kentucky and assigned to General O. M. Mitchel's division. In the spring of 1862 he was commissioned a Colonel, and accompanied Mitchel in his descent upon northern Alabama, taking part in the affair at Bridgeport, in that State, and was subsequently appointed Provost Marshal at Huntsville. He returned with the army to the Ohio river, and fought at the head of his regiment in the battle of Perryville, Kentucky, in October, 1862. He commanded a brigade at Stone River, and, on the first day of the battle, as is stated in Van Horne's "History of the Army of the Cumberland," his command, in conjunction with Sheppard's, Scribner's and the pioneer brigades, "saved the centre, and the army." On the night of January 3d he attacked a portion of the enemy's works lying near the Murfreesboro' pike, and carried them at the point of the bayonet. Soon after this he was commissioned a Brigadier-General, to rank from November 29th, 1862, and participated in the Tullahoma campaign, during which he dislodged the enemy from his position on Elk river. He afterwards served, by appointment of General George H. Thomas, as President of a Board to examine applicants for commissions in colored regiments; was with the army in the Chattanooga campaign, led the advance into Georgia, struck the enemy at Johnson's Crook and Cooper's Gap, and was with Generals Baird and Negley in the affair at Dug Gap. In the battle of Chickamauga General Beatty commenced the fighting of the first day on the extreme right of the line, and of the second day on the extreme left, and continued on the field until the battle ended. On the day following he repulsed a heavy reconnoitring column of the enemy at Rossville. He was on the left with Sherman at Mission Ridge, but during the battle his command formed a part of the reserve. On the day following he led in pursuit of the enemy, and overtaking the rebel General Maury at Graysville, engaged and finally drove him from his position by a charge. He then accompanied General Sherman in the march to Knoxville for the relief of Burnside. In 1864 he resigned, for personal reasons. General Beatty was elected to the Fortieth Congress, and served as a member of the Committee on Invalid Pensions. He was re-elected by an increased majority to the Forty-first Congress, and served as Chairman of the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. He was re-elected, again by an increased majority, to the Forty-second Congress, and served as Chairman of the House Joint Committee on Printing. At the close of his term he was strongly solicited to be again the candidate of his party for re-election, but declined. He now resides in Columbus, where he is engaged in the business of banking. Nelda L. Percival nee Gilpin, IBSSG Beatty descendant line #005 Beaty collateral line #10 Graves descendant line #231 Digin up bones at: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~bonsteinandgilpin/ _________________________________________________________________ Find high-speed ‘net deals — comparison-shop your local providers here. https://broadband.msn.com